Meta warns users about malicious apps design to steal private data
Meta, the parent of Facebook, warns 1 million users that their credentials may have been compromised by malicious apps. Meta researchers discovered more than 400 malicious Android and Apple iOS apps this year designed to steal their users’ personal Facebook credentials, the company said in a blog post on Friday. Meta spokesperson Gabby Curtis confirmed that Meta is alerting 1 million users who may be affected by this.
Meta said the apps they identified are listed on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store as games, photo editors, health and lifestyle services and other types of apps to incentivize. people to download them. According to the company, the malicious app frequently asked users to “log in with Facebook” and then stole their username and password.
This is a very hostile space and as our industry peers work to detect and remove malicious software, some of these apps escape detection and end up in legitimate app stores, “wrote David Agranovich, director of Meta’s Threat Disruption and Ryan Victory, malware detection and detection engineer.
Meta claimed to have reported the apps to Apple and Google, and the apps have since been removed. Representatives from Apple and Google did not immediately comment on the report.
Meta warns users about malicious apps design to steal private data
Meta has been criticized for years for its privacy practices. In 2019, the Federal Trade Commission approved a nearly $ 5 billion deal with Facebook after reports found that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica was inappropriately accessing the personal data of millions of Facebook users.
